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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
might occupation certain
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
might majesty wild-geese
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
might next shock time
What the shock might be next time is unpredictable. Richard DeKaser
might narnia chechnya
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia. Aasif Mandvi
might
We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently. John Gibbons
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
favourite
Change is one of my favourite words. Carol Vorderman
favour injustice accepting
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. Jane Welsh Carlyle
favourite love realistic robert
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
favourite jeff
My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well. Noel Redding
favourite
One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
favour circulation
Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. Aravind Adiga
favour birth-control abstinence
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ? Benny Hill
favour
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. Ma Jian
favourite lining movies silver
One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up. Mike Birbiglia